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“He loved physical books with the same avidity other people loved horses or wine or prog rock. He'd never really warmed to ebooks because they seemed to reduce a book to a computer file, and computer files were disposable things, things you never really owned. He had no emails from ten years ago but still owned every book he bought that year. Besides, what was more perfect an object than a book? The different rags of paper, smooth or rough under your fingers. The edge of the page pressed into your thumbprint as you turned a new chapter. The way your bookmark - fancy, modest, scrap paper, candy wrapper - moved through the width of it, marking your progress, a little further each time you folded it shut.”
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“The world’s ending. —Maybe sometimes it has to.”
― The Crash of Hennington
― The Crash of Hennington
“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.”
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“It is possible,” said Locke with a sheepish grin, “that I have been slightly too bold.”
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
“How have you made it this far in life, George? How do you not get eaten alive by the world out there?”
― The Crane Wife
― The Crane Wife
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